Gateway to the Classics: Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by Arthur Quiller-Couch
 
Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by  Arthur Quiller-Couch

To Electra

I dare not ask a kiss,

I dare not beg a smile,

Lest having that, or this,

I might grow proud the while.


No, no, the utmost share

Of my desire shall be

Only to kiss that air

That lately kisséd thee.

— Robert Herrick
1591-1674   


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